It could hardly be "totally without merit". Most of those disputed
facts are really "he said, she said" situation where not even the
experts agree. Stubbornly sticking to your guns and using loaded words
without going into details as to where specific details come from is
-- well let's not use mean words.
Basically what they're saying is that Nature messed up and that
Wikipedia has more errors than Nature claimed. "internet database
anyone, without specific qualifications can edit" is a jab at
Wikipedia's open community" for no other reason than making themselves
look good.
I'm having a hard time with the idea of sending them a "nice" message.
Mgm